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Maine News Notes. Work has been resumed on the sonstruction of the Portland, Gray and Lewiston electric railroad, which it is expected to have in operation this season. Twenty-one lots of goods have been identified in that plunder depository of "Dr." Fred E. Snow in Dayton, and much more still awaits identification. John Barlow of Lewiston, 71 years of age, died Thursday evening as the result of injuries received in a runaway accident that afternoon. He was thrown from his team and his skull was fractured. The annual outing of the Maine Sportsman's Fish and Game Association is to be held this year at Kineo, as usual, the dates being July 3.4. Good attractions have been secured for the event. On Tuesday the committee in charge of raising the fund for the Children's Hospital in Portland announced that not only bad the desired $25,000 been raised, but it had already been exceeded by about $1000. At Millinocket Friday Clarence Tibbetts fell across a circular saw in a wood sawing machine, and his body was cut from the left arm to the right side, the saw barely missing bis heart. He has a fair prospect for recovery. George W. McKenney, a farmer about 70 years of age, living at North Limington, was badly burned Saturday while trying to remove a tool chest from his barn which had ignited from a rubbish fire, and is reported to be in a serious condition. Organization papers have been filed for a telephone company to embrace a large territory in the great Maine woods north from Bingham. The present capital of the company is $10,000, which would build several miles of the several hundred miles of line proposed. Many grass and brush fires have got away from those who purposely or accidentally started them, and a few sets of buildings have been burned in different places in Maine by them, during the past week or two. The rainless weather since the snow went off has made conditions dangerous. The First National Bank of Dexter has been merged in the new Dexter Trust and Banking Co. The trust company has also taken over the securities of the Dexter Savings Bank which closed its doors January 17, following a run. It is announced that depositors of the closed bank will be paid in full. It is understood that the Edwards Co. has under consideration the project of raising the height of the Kennebec dam at Augusta and that while it is not certain that the work will be done during the coming summer there is a probability that it will be. It is expected that the amount to be expended in the contemplated improvement to the dam will be in the neighborbood of $24,000. There is much speculation as to whether Governor Plaisted will reappoint Judge Albert R. Savage of the Supreme Judicial Court, whose term expires on the 19th of May. Several other appointments are to be made by the governor at an early date, among them that of a live stock sanitary inspector, who takes the place of the former cattle commissioners. This office pays $1500 a year and expenses, and there are abouta dozen candidates for it. There was much interest in the trial at Auburn last week of a suit for slander brought by Frank A. Millett of Mechanic Falls, treasurer of Androscoggin County, against George S. McCarty, a Lewiston lawyer. The action was based upon statements made in a campaign speech last summer by Mr. McCarty, who was a Republican candidate for office, with regard to certain entries on the treasurer's books The trial was short, and the jury, after being out forty-five minutes, returned a verdict of one dollar for Mr. Millett. A prominent Bath citizen a few mornings ago started out for his summer camp arrayed in his comfortable outing regalia. Thus attired he attracted the attention of an out-of-town visitor who was looking for snapshots for his collection. The Bath man was rather pleased at the stranger's request for bis picture until the man with the camera informed bim that he bad been looking for a long time for a typical Maine farmer and that the Bath man filled the bill to perfection. It is needless to say that the man with the camera did not get the much desired snapshot. Dover and Foxcroft are looking for a new source of water supply, and sentiment seems to favor Salmon Pond in the town of Guilford. This pond lies about six miles from the pumping station of the Dover and Foxcroft water district. It is located in the hills and is far removed from contaminating drainage of any nature. The pond lies in a position which would give a powerful gravity system and allow high pressure in any part of either Dover or Foxcroft. Other possible supplies have been carefully considered, but the pond named above seems to look best to investigators at the present time. The Board of Trade is pushing the matter. A sensational turn was given to the trial of George H. Bangs, a citizen of prominence in Augusta, on the charge of defacing ballots cast in the recent city election. Suspicion was directed to Charles A. Wadsworth, who has been a clerk in that ward for ten years, and under pressure he confessed to defacing the ballots for which Mr. Bangs bad been indicted. Mr. Bangs was dis-
